…acquitted by a judge for firing weapon while driving drunk.  Copblock

Anti-surveillance clothing line designed to confuse facial recognition technology.  Patterns on the clothing appears to facial recognition tech as thousands of faces, overwhelming the computer program.

California’s marijuana is more profitable than the next five largest crops combined.  Also, the legal marijuana industry is set to explode in growth in 2017.

Wikileaks offers $20,000 reward for info relating to the Obama admin’s destruction of “significant” records

Obama sends 3,600 tanks to Russian border.  Needless aggressive move designed to provoke Russia into a first strike.  Putin, however, seems to be the adult in the room in dealing with the outgoing admin.

Philippine drug war is the bloodiest ever waged . Duterte apparently adores the bloodbath he launched in June, which has led to the murders of 6,000.

There’s little reason to be optimistic about Trump and privacy, as Lucy Steigerwald explains.

Mandatory patriotism is automatically rendered meaningless

Defense Dept. really doesn’t like whistleblowers, and will retaliate against them, new investigation finds

Oklahoma gets Real ID extension through June 2017

It removes jurisdictional limits to search any computer in the world with a warrant.

More on this new threat to all people who use a computer.

Activist Post.  Do you really need a net-connected fridge, anyway?

Also from the wonderful Free Thought Project. Newly elected Houston DA Kim Ogg rightly sees the insanity of jailing pot smokers next to murderers and thieves and will make every effort to prevent that from happening. How will the Trump regime react to these increasing anti-prohibition rebellions?

Free Thought Project. “I’m gonna make it hurt!” Psychos like this are purposely selected by police departments.  And as this video makes painfully clear, the violent temperament is brought home.

High Times:“All humans have what’s called an endocannabinoid system, comprised of receptors that fit these cannabinoids like a lock fits a key, and this endocannabinoid system regulates many vital systems in the body—including respiratory, circulatory and neurological. Which means, if that system malfunctions and cannabinoids are not brought into the body from the outside (by smoking/vaping/eating cannabis) to return it to balance, the negative consequences can be severe, or even life-threatening.

Dr. Ethan Russo first articulated this idea of “clinical endocannabinoid deficiency” (CECD) in a 2004 scientific paper, describing a condition that contributes to high levels of cancer and degenerative diseases,inflain such as Alzheimer’s, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s and rheumatoid arthritis. With the research to back it up, he’s basically claiming that a lack of cannabis can be the underlying cause of these and many other potentially deadly conditions.

Now imagine that the preventative cure for all of these painful, heartbreaking outcomes could lie in the cannabis plant being widely used as a dietary supplement, much as lemons and limes ended scurvy over two hundred years ago.”

The decentralized crypto-currency had a good year. DW

In interview with Sean Hannity.

Cannabis market saw 30% growth in 2016, bigger than dot-com era. Forbes